console-toolkit

console-toolkit is a set of tools to create rich CLI-based applications. It provides:

• Styles based on ANSI escape sequences:
  • SGR: colors and text styles
  • CSI: cursor and screen control
• Bitmap graphics
• Vector graphics based on Turtle graphics
• Curated sets of Unicode symbols
• Tables with themes
• Bar and column charts with themes
• Various helpers and examples

Visual examples

Memory watcher

Waveform

Table + chart

Turtle graphics

Code example

import style, {c} from 'console-toolkit/style.js';
import drawChart from 'console-toolkit/charts/bars/plain.js';
import lineTheme from 'console-toolkit/themes/lines/unicode-rounded.js';
import makeTable from 'console-toolkit/table';

// styles

console.log(style.bold + 'Hello, ' + style.bright.cyan + 'world!' + style.reset.all);

console.log(style.bold.text('Hello, ') + style.bright.cyan.bold.text('world!'));

const redBg = style.bg.red;
console.log(redBg.bold.text('Hello, ') + redBg.bright.cyan.bold.text('world!'));

console.log(c`{{bold}}Hello, {{bright.cyan}}world!`);

// chart

const chart = drawChart([[2, 1, 2], [5, 1, 4], [1, 1], [3, 1, 3]], 50);
for (const line of chart) console.log(line);

// table

const tableData = [
  ['Name', 'Value'],
  ['Bill', 33],
  ['Jill', 42]
];

const table = makeTable(tableData, lineTheme);
for (const line of table.toStrings()) console.log(line);

The output of the code is:

Installation

npm install --save console-toolkit

Documentation

See wiki for more details.

License

BSD 3-Clause License

Release history

• 1.2.3 Updated deps + more tests.
• 1.2.2 Updated deps.
• 1.2.1 Added support for Bun.stringWidth().
• 1.2.0 Refactored strings.
• 1.1.1 Minor bugfixes in Table, some improvements, updated deps.
• 1.1.0 Minor improvements, enhanced Writer and Updater.
• 1.0.0 Initial release.